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Poster: | gphishmon | Date: | Feb 4, 2010 4:34am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Best ever versions |
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Poster: | buscameby | Date: | Feb 4, 2010 5:35am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Best ever versions |
http://www.archive.org/details/gd1978-04-24.sbd.mccaw.3296.shnf
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Poster: | grendelschoice | Date: | Feb 4, 2010 8:45am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Best ever versions |
I'll listen to some of the recommendations i;ve seen on this thread, but no one's ever going to convince me that a better EYES, JACK STRAW, BERTHA, STEPHEN, or SUGAR MAG was ever played than on 10/29/77.
SUGAREE 10/16/77 OR 5/5/77
H>S>F One From the Vault, 1975.
HALF STEP: 11/6/77, Binghampton (how does anyone not agree with this? ;-) Please go listen.
LET IT GROW: 5/1/81
CASSIDY: 10/12/83
CHINA>RIDER: 2/24/74
CANDYMAN: 3/24/88
IKO: 12/31/87
JACK A ROE: 5/17/77
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Poster: | RBNW....new and improved! | Date: | Jan 30, 2010 6:07pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Best ever versions |
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Poster: | ghostofpig | Date: | Jan 31, 2010 6:11am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Best ever Good Lovin ain't by Bobby |
On the other hand e have 4-14-72, a year later:
Good Lovin> Caution> Who Do You Love> Caution> Good Lovin
which is on the Rhino reissue of Europe 72. This is the finest Pig rap around, and his words entertwine with the amazing music the band is playing with him. Keith is superb, as is Jerry, of course.
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Poster: | user unknown | Date: | Jan 31, 2010 3:28pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Best ever Good Lovin ain't by Bobby |
Of course it isn't. The best "Good Lovin" is by The Young Rascals. The best Grateful Dead version might well be one of the Pigpen version mentioned above. Stylistically the tune fits Pig better than it does Bobby.
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Poster: | RiverRat1492 | Date: | Jan 31, 2010 7:54am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Best ever Good Lovin ain't by Bobby |
Rat
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Poster: | skuzzlebutt | Date: | Jan 30, 2010 8:07pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Best ever versions |
Attics of My Life 6/24/70- If anyone out there thinks they have better one please post. No latter day versions need apply; their voices were simply too shot by the late 80s, and unlike many Dead songs the vocals are critical here.
Morning Dew 5/8/77- I'm not going to ask for dissenters on this one because I know there will be plenty. And for the record I don't think Cornell is even the best show of May '77, much less all time. But I have stated before that I think this "Dew" is that rarest of animals: a primal era Dead song whose peak performance came after the 1975 hiatus.
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Poster: | utopian | Date: | Jan 31, 2010 8:56am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Best ever versions |
This post was modified by utopian on 2010-01-31 16:56:29
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Poster: | jglynn1.2 | Date: | Feb 4, 2010 6:29am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Best ever versions |
I am quite partial as this was my Second Dead show.
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Poster: | mcgannahan | Date: | Jan 30, 2010 11:35pm |
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Poster: | Cliff Hucker | Date: | Jan 31, 2010 4:57am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Best ever versions |
The finest Sugaree of all time was performed on 5/5/77
;)
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Poster: | KILLERGREENBUD | Date: | Jan 31, 2010 5:47am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Best ever versions |
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Poster: | billydlions | Date: | Jan 31, 2010 11:14am |
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Poster: | William Tell | Date: | Feb 2, 2010 4:25am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: For all of you that worry about "being here" |
Do you realize how long I've been "doing this" kind of thing?
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Poster: | SomeDarkHollow | Date: | Feb 4, 2010 8:19am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: For all of you that worry about 'being here' |
Best version of Franklins Tower was the one my little college band played in our first live performance. On the tape I heard later we sounded like crap, but during the show it was absolute perfection. I'm going with the memory, not the physical evidence.
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Poster: | bluedevil | Date: | Feb 4, 2010 8:36am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: For all of you that worry about 'being here' |
Or DSO for jboy and JOTS.
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Poster: | SomeDarkHollow | Date: | Feb 4, 2010 8:40am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: For all of you that worry about 'being here' |
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Poster: | elbow1126 | Date: | Feb 4, 2010 8:48am |
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Poster: | SomeDarkHollow | Date: | Feb 4, 2010 9:07am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: For all of you that worry about 'being here' |
Unless, of course, being sucked in sounds like fun.
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Poster: | elbow1126 | Date: | Feb 4, 2010 9:09am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: For all of you that worry about 'being here' |
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Poster: | jglynn1.2 | Date: | Feb 4, 2010 9:52am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: For all of you that worry about 'being here' |
Best St Stephen
Me and my 4 high school pals belting out St St with one acoustic and one electric (for the leads) at our annual HS variety show.
I know we must have sounded horrendous given or innate inability to harmonize - nothing like 5 dudes monotone vocals
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Poster: | SomeDarkHollow | Date: | Feb 4, 2010 9:59am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: For all of you that worry about 'being here' |
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Poster: | jglynn1.2 | Date: | Feb 4, 2010 10:08am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: For all of you that worry about 'being here' |
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Poster: | LoogyHanger | Date: | Feb 4, 2010 10:32am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: For all of you that worry about 'being here' |
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Poster: | SomeDarkHollow | Date: | Feb 4, 2010 10:26am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Buckfast means Breakfast (in Scotland anyway) |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckfast_Tonic_Wine
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Poster: | robthewordsmith | Date: | Feb 4, 2010 11:03am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Buckfast means Breakfast (in Scotland anyway) |
I guess that makes me either Warp Factor 10 or Def Con 1 on the CDC scale, maybe both...
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Poster: | SomeDarkHollow | Date: | Feb 4, 2010 11:12am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Buckfast means Breakfast (in Scotland anyway) |
As the wikipedia article states: "...Buckfast is alleged to be the drink of choice for drinkers who are prone to committing anti-social behaviour when drunk"
It's only missing a reference to unnatural behaviour towards sheep.
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Poster: | robthewordsmith | Date: | Feb 4, 2010 11:16am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Buckfast means Breakfast (in Scotland anyway) |
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Poster: | William Tell | Date: | Feb 4, 2010 11:52am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Buckfast means Breakfast (in Scotland anyway) |
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Poster: | user unknown | Date: | Feb 4, 2010 6:42pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Buckfast means Breakfast (in Scotland anyway) |
WTF to be happy about?
Buncha slapnuts jaw-jacking about "best" this and that?
I b'leve I'll have another drink!
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Poster: | William Tell | Date: | Feb 4, 2010 9:36am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: For all of you that worry about 'being here' |
That's what she said...
[watched Office re-runs with the boys over the Holidays...]
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Poster: | Arbuthnot | Date: | Jan 31, 2010 1:35pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Best ever versions |
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Poster: | souprman | Date: | Feb 4, 2010 2:46pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Best ever versions |
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Poster: | Dhamma1 | Date: | Jan 30, 2010 6:28pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Best ever versions |
http://gratefuldeadprojects.com/
It's also discussed here fairly regularly, but I've never mastered the forum search application well enough to find previous conversations. Maybe someone else?
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Poster: | rippleguides | Date: | Jan 30, 2010 6:46pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Best ever versions |
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Poster: | Cliff Hucker | Date: | Jan 30, 2010 6:19pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Best ever versions |
Its too subjective, our tastes are all different!
There are just as many heads who think the Hard to Handle on 4/29/71 is better than the one on 8/6/71, and you will never convince me that the New Potato Caboose on 2/14/68 is better than the one on 3/29/68...
Uncle Johns Band 9/18/74
The Eleven 2/12/69
Smokestack lightnin' 2/8/70
Passenger 11/24/78
Mason's Children 12/28/69
Bird Song 6/22/73
Caution 6/14/68
Comes a Time 7/17/76
El Paso 8/5/70
Jack A Roe 5/17/77
Jack Straw 10/27/79
HC Sunshine 4/2/73
Saturday Night 11/7/71
Truckin' 5/19/74
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Poster: | csaw44 | Date: | Jan 30, 2010 10:10pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Best ever versions |
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Poster: | William Tell | Date: | Feb 1, 2010 12:26pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Best ever versions |
So, what do you think of the commercial (GMLSG) 2-11 one (11)? And, what again is special for you about 2-12?
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Poster: | Cliff Hucker | Date: | Feb 1, 2010 6:10pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Best ever versions |
The Eleven from 2/12, however, is a monster performance that rages like a runaway train, 15 minutes of pure mayem not unlike a killer Viola Lee Blues! Honestly, there is so much more going on, wild leads from Phil, snappy drum-work, insane playing by Jer. This one just goes on and on, carrying tremendous momentum the entire way with multiple climaxes. A classic example of the true power of the Grateful Dead with two drummers!
http://www.archive.org/details/gd69-02-12.late.sbd.kaplan.9072.sbeok.shnf
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Poster: | direwolf0701 | Date: | Feb 1, 2010 7:51pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Best ever versions |
that seals the deal for me!!!
:)
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Poster: | William Tell | Date: | Feb 1, 2010 9:43pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Best ever versions |
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Poster: | lobster12 | Date: | Jan 31, 2010 9:10am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Best ever versions |
Half Step ( Boston garden show, possibly 77 as well) Don't have it handy
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Poster: | jimmy cliff | Date: | Jan 31, 2010 4:36pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Best ever versions |
Dancin' - 10/27/79
Sugaree - 5/28/77
Comes a Time - 7/17/76
Half Step - 5/7/77
Standing on the Moon - Downhill From Here
Stagger Lee - 10/21/78
Happiness is Drumming - 6/28/76 :)
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Poster: | GennyBenni | Date: | Jan 30, 2010 6:36pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Best ever versions |
New Potato Caboose - Have to go with 8/24/68. Can't beat that incredible 13/8 jam
H > S > F - definitely their first full performance of it on 8/13/75. Nothing beats this, don't even try to convince me otherwise.
Hard To Handle - clearly 8/6/71, anyone who says anything else is deluding themselves
Tighten Up Jam - 10/31/71 Dark Star. I know this isn't a song, but whatever.
Eyes Of The World - 8/6/74. I don't think Jerry's guitar abilities have ever sounded this amazing.
Viola Lee Blues - 3/21/70. Never heard anything like it.
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Poster: | Cliff Hucker | Date: | Jan 30, 2010 6:55pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Hard to Handle (8/6/71 vs 4/29/71) |
Anyone who thinks that 8/6/71 is so vastly superior to 4/29/71 is delusional...
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Poster: | ghostofpig | Date: | Jan 31, 2010 6:22am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Hard to Handle (8/6/71 vs 4/29/71) |
But I also believe that 8-06 is just as majestic in its own way.
Cliff sums it up just right. 8-06 is a fly by the seat of your pants version which we love the band to do, and 4-29 is just soooooo tight.
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Poster: | Cliff Hucker | Date: | Feb 1, 2010 9:29am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Hard to Handle (8/6/71 vs 4/29/71) |
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Poster: | ghostofpig | Date: | Feb 1, 2010 12:20pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Hard to Handle (8/6/71 vs 4/29/71) |
The Mann ain't what it used to be from what I hear. I hadn't had a lick of contact with it until last October when I went to (groan) my 40th reunion.
I though Riverdale always kicked our asses. What's up with that?
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Poster: | Cliff Hucker | Date: | Feb 1, 2010 5:59pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Hard to Handle (8/6/71 vs 4/29/71) |
I guess things have changed in the Bronx, I see that Riverdale now has an ultimate frisbee team...
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Poster: | GennyBenni | Date: | Jan 30, 2010 7:05pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Hard to Handle (8/6/71 vs 4/29/71) |
Howerver: Just listened to the 4/29/71 HTH again and while it is stunning, it just doesn't give me the same unbelievable feeling that 8/6/71 does. 8/6/71 is just overflowing with raw sexuality that I don't feel as much in 4/29
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Poster: | Cliff Hucker | Date: | Jan 30, 2010 7:32pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Hard to Handle (8/6/71 vs 4/29/71) |
8/6/71 is like an out of control locomotive just barely able to stay on the tracks. Jerry's blistering leads are fucking unbelievable!
4/29/71 is much more cohesive and actually jammed out. You can hear Weir slashing throughout.
My point is not that one performance is better than the other. Rather that they are both so superb thats its naive to think one is so vastly superior to the other to be considered a "Can there be any question? selection"
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Poster: | souprman | Date: | Feb 4, 2010 2:41pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Hard to Handle (8/6/71 vs 4/29/71) |
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Poster: | elbow1126 | Date: | Jan 31, 2010 7:14am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Hard to Handle (8/6/71 vs 4/29/71) |
Look I love them both, but when I did the sbd vs. sbd comparison I came to the conclusion that 4-29 is better. My two cents.
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Poster: | GennyBenni | Date: | Jan 31, 2010 10:15am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Hard to Handle (8/6/71 vs 4/29/71) |
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Poster: | elbow1126 | Date: | Jan 31, 2010 11:33am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Hard to Handle (8/6/71 vs 4/29/71) |
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Poster: | William Tell | Date: | Feb 1, 2010 10:58am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Hard to Handle (8/6/71 vs 4/29/71) |
Everyone else here has covered all of it, and I think CLIFF sums it up nicely: 4/29 might be "better" technically, but 8/6 has much more "soul" IMHO (and not so humble, right, GoP?!).
I actually did take a poll with about 15 DEAD/half DEAD heads and 8/6 won hands down.
It was the AUD, elb! Not sure how'd go with the SBD.
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Poster: | ghostofpig | Date: | Feb 1, 2010 12:22pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Hard to Handle (8/6/71 vs 4/29/71) |
Just because you are wrong don't make me right. Insert chuckle here.
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Poster: | Styrofoam Cueball | Date: | Feb 4, 2010 10:26pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Hard to Handle (8/6/71 vs 4/29/71) |
Just an excuse to say HAllo, really...
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Poster: | William Tell | Date: | Feb 5, 2010 4:35am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Hard to Handle (8/6/71 vs 4/29/71) |
Let's see, 8-6 = 342, votes; 4-29 = uh....hmmmm...where's that tally sheet?
Anyhow, hope all is well my friend.
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Poster: | Styrofoam Cueball | Date: | Feb 5, 2010 9:06am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Hard to Handle (8/6/71 vs 4/29/71) |
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Poster: | ghostofpig | Date: | Feb 5, 2010 1:22pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Hard to Handle (8/6/71 vs 4/29/71) |
This post was modified by ghostofpig on 2010-02-05 21:21:34
This post was modified by ghostofpig on 2010-02-05 21:22:08
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Poster: | thrinworks | Date: | Feb 3, 2010 9:26am |
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Poster: | LoogyHanger | Date: | Feb 3, 2010 9:36am |
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Poster: | fireeagle | Date: | Feb 4, 2010 4:53am |
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Poster: | RBNW....new and improved! | Date: | Feb 4, 2010 4:52am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Best ever versions |
Set I
Merl Saunders & Friends
Haight Street Fair
San Francisco, CA
June 9th 1985
TAPER: Greg Holtz 1.Tuning
2.Wang Dang Doodle
3.Do I Move You
4.Bright Lights, Big City->
5.Baby What You Want me To Do->
6.Built For Comfort
7.Women are Smarter
8.Mona
9.Hi Heeled Sneakers
10.Johnny B Goode
Band Members: Bob Weir, John Cipollina, Brent Mydland, Robbie Hoddinott, Tony Saunders, Pam Rose
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Poster: | LoogyHanger | Date: | Feb 4, 2010 7:04am |
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Poster: | Death&Mercy | Date: | Jan 31, 2010 5:33am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Best ever versions |
1/20/68 - Viola
12/28/69 - Mason's
9/28/72 - GSET
12/19/73 - HCS
06/28/74 - To Lay Me Down
06/28/74 - Weather Report
05/09/77 - Comes A Time
09/03/77 - PeggyO
02/03/78 - TMNS
11/09/79 - Franklin's
11/24/79 - Rider
10/27/91 - Althea
03/16/94 - Standing On The Moon
09/18/94 - So many Roads
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Poster: | Cliff Hucker | Date: | Jan 31, 2010 6:08am |
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Poster: | stratocaster | Date: | Feb 4, 2010 5:28pm |
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others to add to the list as best of versions:
West LA 07-19-1989
Werewolves of London 07-08-1978
World To Give 10-17-1978
Music Never Stopped 04-24-1978
Tennessee Jed 10-10-1982
Loser 03-24-1990
Dire Wolf 10-19-1974
HCS 12-19-1973
NFA 09-19-1970
Touch of Grey 03-24-1987
Far From Me 10-10-1982
Ship of Fools 12-30-1986
He's Gone 05-06-1981
Days Between 12-11-1994
Stella Blue 06-18-74 (pre), 10-21-78 (late 70s), 05-15-83 (80s), 03-21-94 (90s)
that's it for now...
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Poster: | dead-head_Monte | Date: | Feb 2, 2010 12:17pm |
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Poster: | jimmy cliff | Date: | Jan 31, 2010 5:03pm |
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Poster: | countmlbjam | Date: | Feb 1, 2010 9:09pm |
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China>Rider: 8-5-74
Eyes: 9-11-74
Scarlet>Fire: 10-2-77
Shakedown: 8-28-81
Viola: 5-2-70
Playin: 11-18-72
GSET: 9-28-72
Half-Step: 5-7-77
Other One: 10-21-78
Terrapin: 1-22-78
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Poster: | rastamon | Date: | Feb 2, 2010 11:53am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Best ever versions |
This post was modified by rastamon on 2010-02-02 19:53:25
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Poster: | direwolf600 | Date: | Feb 2, 2010 11:56am |
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Poster: | gphishmon | Date: | Feb 4, 2010 4:13am |
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http://www.archive.org/details/gd1980-05-10.set2.sbd.miller.91938.sbeok.flac16